???? - 1825
Slave-owner in Jamaica, dying at Bath 13/01/1825 aged 81; he has a tablet in Bath Abbey. The estates he mentioned in his will were returned together with Mullet Hall in the early 1830s.
Will of John Mackglashan of Bath (made 03/01/1825) proved 17/02/1825. In the will he left an annuity of £500 p.a. to his wife or £350 p.a. plus occupation of his house in Bath. He left his daughter (unnamed) an annuity of £187 10s p.a. owed to him by Bigoe Armstrong and £67 10s p.a. part of an annuity of £337 10s p.a. from Robert Malthus Payne, plus a further £50 p.a. (It seems that these annuities were in exchange for advances of £1500 and £2500 respectively). He left his moiety of two estates in Jamaica Mount Prospect (described as Mount Pleasant in a codicil) and Killicrankie in trust for his [unnamed] grandchildren, with contingent remainder to his daughter for life and then 1/3rd each to his nephews Charles Mackglashan and Robert Mackglashan and 1/3rd to the two children of his late niece Elizabeth Chalmers. If the estates and enslaved people were to be sold, he wished a distinct preference be given to his nephew Charles Mackglashan. In a codicil of the same date he directed the net produce of the estates to be paid to his daughter for her children.
The will of his widow Elizabeth proved 12/05/1830 shows their daughter as Charlotte Maria Elwin, wife of Fountain [sic] Elwin. His likely son, Thomas MackGlashan, died in a duel in 1811 and Thomas's wife and three children were all dead by 1825.
http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/b/bcarib15.htm: also, 1830, March 22, died in Bennett-street, aged 75, Elizabeth, widow of the late J. McGlashan, esq; of the island of Jamaica, and Kensington place, in this city. ("B.C.")
PROB 11/1695/266. Robert Malthus Payne was a goldsmith of Bath; Bigoe Armstrong was probably the army officer of that name who died in Boulogne in 1824, Burke's Commoners Vol. IV 'Armstrong of Garry Castle.'
PROB 11/1771/250; see separate entry for Thomas MackGlashan.
Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Spouse
Elizabeth
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1815 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Joint owner
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1826 [SY] - 1829 [EY] → Previous owner
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Uncle → Nephew
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Father → Daughter
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Father → Son
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Kensington Place, Bath, Somerset, South-west England, England
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